91: Spiritual energy rising to the sky
Jiangzhou City, bunker.
Lu Yu, who had just spent three days healing his injuries, was severely wounded again after disturbing the spaceship's skeleton. He went into seclusion for another day and only then fully recovered.
The first thing Lu Yu did after recovering was to grimly take out that section of crimson muscle.
Yesterday, the skeleton suddenly attacked him. If he hadn't had the Golden Body Protection and borrowed the power of the zi xuan crystal, he would have certainly perished there.
This grudge had been etched into Lu Yu's heart!
"System, absorb it fiercely!" Lu Yu said, gritting his teeth in anger.
Absorbing this crimson muscle now would serve as a down payment for the interest.
As his voice fell, the crimson muscle in his hand gradually began to fade, and the evolution points in the system rapidly surged.
Unlike the previous instantaneous absorption of fierce beast corpses, this absorption lasted a full three seconds before that section of crimson muscle vanished from his claws.
Lu Yu was a little surprised; this was the first time he had encountered such a situation.
"Congratulations on gaining 30,000 evolution points!"
When Lu Yu saw the system's prompt, he was stunned for a moment.
How could there be so many evolution points?!
One should know that a Tier B Ferocious Beasts could only provide about 10,000 evolution points.
Yet, this section of the skeleton's crimson muscle actually provided him with evolution points equivalent to three Tier B Ferocious Beasts!
What was the origin of that skeleton?
Lu Yu's mind uncontrollably conjured the image of that skeleton: impossibly vast, bound within a mysterious spaceship... If the skeleton broke free, how earth-shattering would its unleashed power be?
He felt both a sense of worry and a touch of madness.
After all, absorbing just this small portion yielded so many evolution points.
How many evolution points would he gain if he absorbed the entire skeleton?
Of course, Lu Yu could only imagine it for now, as he was very clear that his current self was still far from being a match for the skeleton.
However, looking at the evolution points in the system interface, which were already close to 60,000, he was not far from the 100,000 evolution points needed to break through to Tier A.
If he set up the Nine Heavens Spirit Gathering Array, he felt that Tier A was already beckoning to him.
If all else failed, Tier B Ferocious Beasts were already starting to appear, and hunting some of them would also allow him to gather enough points.
Of course, unless absolutely necessary, Lu Yu did not plan to hunt Tier B Ferocious Beasts so quickly.
After all, once he broke through to Tier A, the evolution points required to break through to S-rank would directly reach one million!
At that time, he would need many Tier A ferocious beasts to provide him with evolution points.
Below S-rank, for Lu Yu, it was merely a transition.
If he killed too many Tier B Ferocious Beasts now, it would inevitably slow down the appearance rate of Tier A ferocious beasts.
Fattening them up first, then harvesting them in a wave, was the best choice.
"Next, I'll set up the Nine Heavens Spirit Gathering Array to see its effect. Then, the power mall will update, and there will definitely be many good things."
Lu Yu composed himself and swiftly appeared above Jiangzhou City.
Everything was ready now, and he had no intention of delaying any further.
As Lu Yu appeared, the Little White Fox, who was carving array patterns onto fierce beast carcasses in the square, slowly looked up, unable to hide her excitement.
She knew that Lu Yu was finally going to set up the array.
The citizens of Jiangzhou City looked up and noticed Lu Yu in mid-air, most of them puzzled as to why he had suddenly appeared.
Lu Yu closed his eyes, replaying the Nine Heavens Spirit Gathering Array one last time in his mind, then abruptly clenched his claws downwards.
Vast spiritual energy immediately surged upwards from below, lifting the dense fierce beast bones piled in various parts of the square into the air.
From a distance, countless bones looked like a swarm of locusts, obscuring most of the sunlight and casting mottled shadows across the city.
Afterwards, Lu Yu's divine sense spread out as much as possible, controlling each bone with carved array patterns, orienting them vertically towards the ground below, and then slowly lowering them.
As Lu Yu controlled the fierce beast bones with his divine sense, the array patterns on the bones were also fully activated. Between neighboring bones, the array patterns resonated, each differentiating into faint spiritual light, connecting with each other.
The citizens and fierce beasts within the city watched this scene with horror.
If this hadn't been caused by Lu Yu, they would have already fled in a panic.
Bang, bang, bang ~
The thudding sounds of bones landing and embedding deep into the ground rose and fell, like a great hailstorm, exclusive to Jiangzhou City, raining down from the sky.
As more and more bones landed, the entire geological and strata structure of Jiangzhou City rapidly underwent earth-shattering changes.
After a period of shaking, the soft soil beneath the surface seemed to solidify into an indestructible bedrock.
On the plains at the edge of Jiangzhou, nine mountains were squeezed out of thin air, like undulating arcs, enclosing Jiangzhou City within them, preventing any living beings from approaching.
Thus, the foundation of the Nine Heavens Spirit Gathering Array was perfectly laid.
With the current hardness of Jiangzhou City's strata, even Tier C Ferocious Beast would find it difficult to break through.
Afterwards, Lu Yu took out a spirit gathering stone the size of a goose egg and quickly removed the spiritual energy seal.
Without the restraint of the spiritual energy seal, the spiritual energy within a hundred meters around the spirit gathering stone was absorbed by it at a whale-swallowing speed.
The white luster of the spirit gathering stone also became clearer and gradually began to jade.
Then, with a thought, Lu Yu plunged the spirit gathering stone directly beneath the bunker, transforming it into the array eye of the Nine Heavens Spirit Gathering Array.
It gradually merged with the other fierce beast bones buried underground, reflecting each other.
Soon, under the rapid assimilation of the spirit gathering stone, each bone seemed to become a small spirit gathering stone, then resonated with each other, forming a larger spirit gathering stone.
For a time, strong winds raged within Jiangzhou City!
Spiritual energy from all directions of heaven and earth was forcibly pulled in by the shimmering array, forming gusts of spiritual wind that intertwined and collided within Jiangzhou City, causing even tall buildings to sway slightly.
The clear sky also became heavily misty as vast amounts of spiritual energy gathered, and the light dimmed considerably.
"What exactly is Mr. Lu doing?" Li Changan in Jiangzhou City looked at Lu Yu in the sky, his heart filled with confusion and incomprehension.
From the previous earth-shaking to the current raging winds, Lu Yu had caused such a huge commotion!
"Beep, beep, beep... Large amounts of spiritual energy detected!"
Suddenly, Li Changan saw the newly developed spiritual energy detector soar like a rocket, sounding an alarm that it was about to overload.
Spiritual energy detectors were developed by those scientists to search for natural treasures, as most natural treasures live in places with unusually rich spiritual energy.
However, why would the spiritual energy in Jiangzhou City, which usually had moderate spiritual energy, suddenly surge?
It was even much richer than the places where they found spiritual materials, and this sign of spiritual energy growth continued to increase!